THIRD LLNL AGE DISCRIMINATION TRIAL MOVING FORWARD

An age discrimination lawsuit involving ten former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employees is moving forward in a Northern California court. The trial is the third involving a group of 130 employees that were laid off from the lab in 2008, and involves scientists and engineers from the lab that say they were the victims of age discrimination as part of the layoff. The trial is currently scheduled to take place in Alameda County Superior Court Jan. 26, 2015. An Alameda County jury found in favor of a group of five former employees in a breach of contract case in early 2013, awarding the former employees $2.7 million, but a separate jury rejected the same employees’ claims of age discrimination in connection to their layoffs. The five employees are from the same group of 130 laid off employees that has produced the current 10 scientists and engineers heading to trial.